1. A five-year community effort to improve Earth literacy and build a workforce prepared to tackle environmental and resource issues
InTeGrate supports integrated interdisciplinary learning about resource and environmental issues across the undergraduate curriculum to create a sustainable and just civilization.
What is InTeGrate
An NSF STEP Center
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2. Interdisciplinary Teaching for a Sustainable Future
Our nation and the world struggle with significant environmental and resource challenges.
Meeting these challenges will require a savvy public, a new kind of workforce, and a broader understanding of the Earth by all who engage these issues
Our approach is three fold –
Integrate learning about Earth with an understanding of the issues we face,
Develop capacity for teaching higher order, interdisciplinary problem solving skills,
Open up new venues for learning
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3. A Systems Model for Transformation of Individuals, Institutions, and the Education Community
Programs/
Institutions
Community/
Network
Courses

4. A System of Resources For You Website Webinars Workshops
Teaching Materials
Implementation Programs
Research
Groups
Assessment
Team
Website
Webinars
A System of Resources
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5. Design Goals*
Address one or more geoscience-related grand challenges facing society
Develop student ability to address interdisciplinary problems
Improve student understanding of the nature and methods of geoscience and developing geoscientific habits of mind
Make use of authentic and credible geoscience data to learn central concepts in the context of geoscience methods of inquiry
Develop systems thinking
* Referred to as Guiding Principles for Curriculum Design

6. Pedagogic Goals
Engaged, student centered, research based pedagogy supports higher order learning
Alignment of goals, materials and assessments supports and documents learning
Develops scientific thinking and an understanding of the process of science
Materials can be used successfully in multiple settings

7. Implementation Goals
Materials are used widely by faculty across the country
Materials are used in courses outside geoscience departments
Learning by students can be documented to show increased higher level understanding of sustainability and geoscience

8. Linking Goals and Process: The Materials Design Rubric
Guiding Principles
Learning Objectives and Outcomes
Assessment and Measurement
Resources and Materials
Instructional Strategies
Alignment

9. Linking Goals and Process: Part 2: Testing and Publishing
Collection of assessment data
Revision of materials
Publication of teaching materials and supporting information for faculty
Case studies document implementation at your institutions

10. A five-year community effort to improve Earth literacy and build a workforce prepared to tackle environmental and resource issues